Rectifier apparatus



June 12, 1928.

W. A. PETERS, JR

RECTIFIER APPARATUS Filed April 28, 1925 Fig.1

wAPelerqJ/gmvlimon BY HIS ATTORNEY embodiments thereof such as orifices in place of simple weir openin s, or a plugcock receiving the condenser 'quor and dividing it.

I claim:

1. In a rectifier apparatus, in combinatin, a rectifier column, a condenser therefor, a pair of cooperative weir units, means for eonductin condensate from the condenser to a position behind said weir units'in position to flow thereover, means for adjusting the width of the two weir units, and means for returning the liquid, which passes over one of said units, to the column.

2. In a rectifier apparatus, in combination, a rectifier column, a condenser therefor, a pair of cooperative weir units, means for eonductin condensate from the condenser to a position behind said weir units in position to flow thereover, means for adjusting the width of one of said units, and means tions shall remain constant, means for changing the width of one of said weirs so as to vary said ratio, and means for conveying liquid from one of said weir unitsto said co umn.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature.

WILLIAM A. PETERS, J n. 

